Christmas and the Crucifixion

If you desire a better understanding of-or greater appreciation for-the Costliest Gift ever given, why not spend some time looking up the definitions of the terms that God's Word uses in regards to the MAGNITUDE and TOTALITY of what Christ accomplished on the cross of Calvary?

These definitions are from the public domain OPTED-Online Plain Text Dictionary
http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~ralph/OPTED/
Project Gutenburg
http://www.promo.net/pg/

Adoption (n.) The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.
Atone (v. i.) To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime.
Atone (v. t.) To make satisfaction for; to expiate.
Atonement (n.) Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends; -- with for. Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ.
Cleanse (v. t.) To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.
Deliver (v. t.) To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.
Translate (v. t.) To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
Translate (v. t.) To change into another form; to transform.
Redeem (v. t.) To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
Redeem (v. t.) To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like.
Redeem (v. t.) Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
Redeem (v. t.) To pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as, to redeem an error.
Re-demption (n.) The procuring of God's favor by the sufferings and death of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
Forgive (v. t.) To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; -- said of the person offending.
Forgiveness (n.) The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries.
Justification (n.) The act of justifying, or the state of being justified, in respect to God's requirements
Justify (a.) To pronounce free from guilt or blame; to declare or prove to have done that which is just, right, proper, etc.; to absolve; to exonerate; to clear.
Justify (a.) To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve.
Propitiate (v. t.) To appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate.
Propitiate (v. i.) To make propitiation; to atone.
Propitiation (n.) The act of appeasing the wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.
Propitiation (n.) That which propitiates; atonement or atoning sacrifice; specifically, the influence or effects of the death of Christ in appeasing the divine justice, and conciliating the divine favor.
Remission (n.) Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.
Remit (v. t.) To forgive; to pardon; to remove
Pardon (v. t.) The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.
Pardon (v. t.) A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense
Purge (v. t.) To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.
Purge (v. t.) To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.
Perfect (a.) To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.
Reconcile (v. t.) To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled.

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[rickydepths1]

God does not like Christmas. It has nothing to do with Christ. It came from Roman Saturnalia. Jesus may have been born in Spring or Fall but not in the winter. Jesus doesn't like Christmas...Read jeremiah 10:1-5

[thrufaithalone]

The video does not promote Christmas in that sense. I simply stated that it is the time that many set aside to celebrate Christ's birth. Is there something wrong with celebrating Jesus' birth? Would you agree that it's good to do a study of all the words that pertain to why Jesus came?

[feba2]

Hi, I don't celebrate it but it is good to remind ourselves what gift God gave us in Jesus...

[thrufaithalone]

Yes...365 days a year;)

[thrufaithalone]

You're welcome:)

[EncompassedRunner]

Very helpful, thank you.

[thrufaithalone]

Definitions up:)

[EncompassedRunner]

Thanks, that'd be super helpful.

[thrufaithalone]

Actually, that's a very good place to start. Before my conversion, I had no expository dictionary or concordance so I turned to Webster's dictionary. If I have time this week, I'll put the definitions in the sidebar:)

[EncompassedRunner]

Quite a lot included in our gift of salvation -- but some of those words are very foreign, very specialized (theological), where can you recommend we look those words up -- a regular dictionary?